Creamy Teas

Jin Xuan, meaning "Golden Lily" in Chinese, is a relatively new Formosa cultivar developed by Taiwan's Tea Research and Extension Station in the early 1980s. This cultivar is the end result of nearly four decades of cross-breeding several Formosa varieties to yield a tea with a naturally milky taste, distinct in character from the traditional cultivars of our... →

Our Golden Monkey, First Pick comes from a tea garden on Jiulong Hill, in the eastern part of the Wuyi Mountain range. The area sees abundant rainfall, the climate is moist, the environment pure and the resulting tea leaves and its craftsmanship, exquisite. Picked in mid-March, it is the first... →

Silver Needle is the highest grade of white tea, crafted exclusively from young spring tea leaf buds. Picked entirely by hand, our Silver Needle comes from a high elevation grove of da bai tea trees in Fuding County, Fujian: the birthplace of white tea. Once gathered, the buds were scattered on... →

At 2600 meters above sea level, Fu Shou Shan is the second highest peak in the Lishan Range, exceeding Lishan (for which the mountain range is named) by almost 400 meters. Our Fu Shou Shan was hand-gathered from a tea garden that sits at nearly 2500 meters (8200 feet) above... →

Cultivated at over 4,000 feet above sea level in Taiwan's famed Alishan region, Jin Xuan Winter Sprout is a truly elegant representation of Formosa oolong, and one of the most unique Taiwanese teas in our collection. Known as dong pian in Chinese, winter harvests like this offer an exciting chance to discover a new side... →

Our Lishan Matcha is a fantastic (and entirely unique) alternative to Japanese matcha. Unlike Japanese green tea-based matcha (which is usually grown in low-elevation mass plantations and manually shaded), the high-elevation growing environment of Lishan provides all the requisite factors to create rich flavor naturally. Peaking at 2200 meters above sea level, Lishan is the third... →

In the mid-1980s, at Red Blossom's inception, we imported a rich shou pu-erh that we simply called "Grand Pu-erh." It was the tea upon which we weaned our first wave of pu-erh connoisseurs, who loved its rich flavor and balanced profile. Over time, our Grand Pu-erh developed a passionate following, and with its popularity we... →

Harvested in Taiwan's highest-elevation and most revered tea region, Da Yu Lin has a level of complexity, aromatics, and flavor that is simply unrivaled by other Formosa oolongs. True Da Yu Lin like this has a reputation as Taiwan’s most coveted tea. At over 8000 feet above sea level, the source garden is close... →